Quotes About Self-mastery

Don't you ever feel like lashing out at somebody? I mean, don't you ever lose your temper?' 'Ela, after you've inadvertently killed a couple of people with your bare hands, either you learn to control your temper or you lose your humanity.' 'You've done that?' 'Yes,' he said.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

What is done is done. What is past is past. You call yesterday the past? What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Be honest, frank and fearless and get some grasp of the real values of life… Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

No fumes, no ennui, no more complaints <...> and nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.

The Übermensch at any rate cannot be dissociated from the conception of Überwindung, of overcoming. "Man is something that should be overcome"—and the man who has overcome himself has become an overman.

as you realize that you are responsible for your reactions in any given moment, others will cease to have any power or control over you.

Reread that quote carefully. If you are not the master of yourself, then by this definition you are not free. You do not have to be overtly powerful and exert influence over others to be free, nor is it necessary to intimidate others, nor to try to bully people into submission in order to prove your own mastery.

Decide that any and all unhappiness that you choose will never be the result of someone else, but rather that it will be the result of you and your own behavior. Remind yourself constantly that any externally caused unhappiness reinforces your own slavery, since it assumes that you have no control over yourself or them, but they have control over you.

practice self-control.

Mastering others requires force; mastering the self needs strength.

shift from the acquisition of information and the pursuit of status symbols to understanding and mastering yourself in any and all situations.

The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.

The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.

It's your body. Tell it what to do.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Bien heureusement, pensait Elizabeth, personne ne devait s'en apercevoir. Car, à beaucoup de sensibilité Jane unissait une égalité d'humeur et une maîtrise d'elle-même qui la préservait des curiosités indiscrètes.

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.